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1985

Will, Richard T.

Doctoral thesis which adopts an approach designed by Binford to examine how muskoxen were exploited by the Copper Inuit who lived on northern Banks Island during the nineteenth century. A set of food value indices are developed for muskox anatomical parts, which are used to predict how the...

Spring 2014

Vaughan, Jessica M

The mapping and dating of surficial glacial landforms and sediments across southern Banks Island document glaciation by the northwest Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) during the last glacial maximum. Geomorphic landforms confirm the operation of an ice stream at least 1000 m thick in Amundsen Gulf that...

1980

Schinkel, Dale Rayne.

Masters thesis. Determines whether resident and tourist campers could be differentiated in terms of a number of pertinant dimensions of the camping experience. The results of the study have implications for regional recreation and tourism development strategies.

1981

Janssens, Jan A. P.

Doctoral thesis. Bryophytes, more particularly mosses, are used in the paleoenvironmental reconstruction and historical biogeography of eastern Beringia, an area including Alaska and the Yukon. The Old Crow Basin in northern Yukon was studied in detail. // Appendix 2: Subfossil bryophytes...

1982

Yee, Allan.

Masters thesis. Examined various methods of alleviating the problems associated with existing water distribution systems that rely on bleeding as a means of freeze protection. A data base on existing bleeder installation in Whitehorse was developed.

1981

Chatwin, Stephen C.

Masters thesis based on detailed field and laboratory studies of a palsa complex near Fort Simpson, NWT in order to characterize and determine the origin of the landform.

1978

Luff, David Owen.

Masters thesis analysing the interrelations of vegetation and physical environment that form palsas in a small area of the Canada Precambrian Shield.

1980

Raniga, Shakuntala.

An evaluation program was designed to assess the nature of the greywater of an isolated northern community, Whale Cove, and its treatment in order to reduce the potential health hazard.

Fall 2010

Gardner, Alex Sandy

Land ice is losing mass to the world’s oceans at an accelerated rate. The world’s glaciers contain much less ice than the ice sheets but contribute equally to eustatic sea level rise and are expected to continue to do so over the coming centuries if global temperatures continue to rise. It is...

1979

Procter, Dennis Lester Coor.

Doctoral thesis. Study of several aspects of the ecology of free-living soil nematodes on the Truelove Lowland high arctic terrestrial ecosystem on Devon Island.